We aim to:
- Allow knowledge-based tool developers to publicise their efforts and become aware of other FLOSS projects.
- Facilitate the pooling of coding efforts on (often poorly funded) tools.
- Create a network where otherwise isolated developers and research engineers can share common concerns.
- Provide social recognition for people who work in fields where designing and developing tools does not produce the traditionally recognisable outcomes, e.g., research papers.
We seek talks about:
- New software releases of research tools or technologies.
- Feedback on open technology stacks used in research contexts (e.g., scientific research, journalistic inquiry, archive creation or publication, etc.) which collect, analyse, document, visualise, and/or share data.
- Tool design and implementation for specific research contexts, e.g., how to hold an algorithm accountable to social scientists, how to foster better replicability and interoperability thanks to FLOSS, how to cope with biases of a chart for a data journalist, etc.
- Issues and opportunities about bridging tech culture with research environments (research labs, libraries, newsrooms, museums, etc.).
Talks will be around 20-40 minutes long + 5-10 minutes Q&A, must be in English, will be video recorded by the amazing FOSDEM staff and will be available on the FOSDEM video recordings archive.
Time and place:Saturday 1st February 2020
from 10:30 to 19:00
ULB, Brussels, Belgium
How to submit proposalsBy submitting a proposal you agree to being recorded and to have your talk made available.
Deadline: Sunday 1st December 2019 23:59 CET
Submissions must include:
- Abstract
- Session type (Lecture or Lightning talk)
- Session length (20-40 min, 10 min for a lightning talk)
- Expected prior knowledge / intended audience
- Speaker bio
The following information may also be provided but is optional:
- Links to code / slides / material for the talk
- Links to previous talks by the speaker
Submission process is managed in the Pentabarf system used by the FOSDEM conference.
Apply for a talk:
https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM20When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, make sure to select the
Open Research Tools and Technologies Devroom as the Track. If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous FOSDEM event, please reuse it.
Feel free to contact me directly for any questions or concerns:
koutsou@biologie.uni-muenchen.deOther devrooms that might be of interestEven if FOSDEM is not science-specific, you might be interested by many other talks. Some developer rooms (tracks) that may be relevant to the interests of this mailing list:
- HPC, Big Data, and Data Science
- Graph systems and algorithms
- Open source design
- Community
Developer room organisersAchilleas Koutsou, G-Node,
http://g-node.org https://github.com/achilleas-kMichael Sonntag, G-Node,
http://g-node.org https://github.com/mpsonntag